OTS inspectors are responsible for security checks at every airport in the country. The office is under the Department of Transportation.

A senior OTS employee told The STAR said they are asking OTS officials to give their personnel the benefits they claim were announced by Malacañang: annual performance base bonus, leave credit conversion, team building, salary standardization and P15,000 per year.

“We were never given any of that,” the employee said.

He invoked their right to freedom of expression in their plan to wear red armbands, adding that they will not abandon their posts.

China has rejected as “unwelcome” the call of the United Kingdom, France and Germany on the South China Sea claimants to respect the arbitration ruling of 2016 and the rules-based framework laid out in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

The Philippines and China effectively consigned to limbo on Thursday the UNCLOS-based arbitral ruling in 2016 on their maritime disputes, and moved to explore instead a wider Code of Conduct for resolving conflicts in the South China Sea.

It would be a betrayal of public trust should the Duterte administration accept China’s rejection of the landmark ruling that invalidated its sweeping claim over the South China Sea, parts of which is the West Philippine Sea, former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert Del Rosario said Saturday.